How election deniers could disrupt the 2024 election

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🗓️ 21 October 2024

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A watchdog group is warning about possible efforts by election deniers to disrupt the certification of votes this year. Noah Bookbinder, president of Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington, joins us. Then, what's next for the hostages still being held in Gaza? Former Israeli hostage negotiator Gershon Baskin talks about how to move toward a hostage release and the end of Israel's war against Hamas in Gaza. And, sea glass collecting has grown in popularity in the last 10 years. Host Robin Young goes glassing on Boston's Revere Beach

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0:29.0	We saw on January 6th 2021 what can happen when large numbers of people believe that
0:35.0	elections are not trustworthy.
0:37.1	This kind of effort could compound what we saw that.
0:40.2	A watchdog group warns about efforts to undermine the November election.
0:44.4	It is Monday, October 21st, from NPR and W-B-U-R Boston.
0:57.0	Welcome to hear a now anytime.
0:59.6	I'm Shirley Jehar. Today on the show we talk with a forum. Surely jihad.
1:07.0	Today on the show we talk with a former Israeli hostage negotiator about whether there's any end game in sight
1:10.0	for the war in Gaza.
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1:16.6	of a kind of buried treasure that's colorful and artful. First now, Election Day, just a couple weeks off now. A leading nonprofit watchdog group is sending
1:28.0	a warning. Several election officials in places around the country now are also 20-20 election deniers.
1:35.4	The Watchdog Group crew, Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington, says more
1:40.8	than 30 of those election officials have already refused to certify results in recent
1:46.1	elections.
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